"HE WANTED TO SHARE THE GRIEF"
                              by Michael Seiler
                         Journal Herald Staff Writer

   A conscientious objector, who tried "to share some of the grief" of the
Vietnamese, died yesterday during a Viet Cong attack in the Central
Highlands. Ted Alan Studebaker, 25-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Studebaker of Montgomery-Miami County Line Road, Union, was killed by the
Viet Cong in the village of Di Linh, where he was ending two years of
service as an agricultural adviser for Church World Services (CWS) a
church-supported volunteer organization.

   Studebaker had married fellow (CWS) worker, Lee Ven Pak, April 14. He
had not been home in two years, and had just agreed to a year-long
extension of his service in Vietnam. One of the final memories the family
has is a tape recorded interview with Studebaker done by a national office
of the Church of the Brethren. In it, the interviewer praised Studebaker
for his rapport with the Montagnard refugees with whom he worked.
Studebaker replied: "Rapport is something you developed with people by
being here, by living with them, by speaking their language, and
understanding some of their problems...

   The CIVILIAN population is, of course, in the middle of the war, and
they are the ones who are losing the war..."So many times in this war,
mistakes are made and it seems like the whole war is run on a bunch of
mistakes..." The mistakes, by both sides kill civilians, he said, and for
an outsider to truly share their grief is difficult "because this is their
country and their families and their bloodshed, not mine."

   Lowell Studebaker, Ted's brother, said he died when the Viet Cong
"attacked the CWS house in Di Linh...Everyone made it with the exception of
Ted."

   Studebaker was a graduate of West Milton-Union High School and
Manchester College in North Manchester, Ind. He received a master's degree
in social work at Florida State University.

   He is also survived by three other brothers, Ronald..., Gary..., and
Douglas...; three sisters, Mary Ann..., Nancy..., and Linda...
Funeral services are pending.